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{{Short description|Punjabi clan in Pakistan and India}}

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| caste_name = '''Chopra'''
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| religions = {{hlist| [[Hinduism]] | [[Sikhism]] | [[Jain]] }}
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| country = {{hlist| [[India]] | [[Pakistan]] }}
| region = {{hlist| [[Punjab, Pakistan]] | [[Rajasthan]] | [[Punjab, India]] | [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]] | [[Haryana]] | [[Azad Kashmir]] | [[Himachal Pradesh]] | [[Uttar Pradesh]] | [[Uttarakhand]]}}
| ethnicity = [[Gurjar]] (Gujjar)
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'''Chopra''',<ref>{{Cite book |last=Shashi |first=Singh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ZiVjAAAAIAAJ&q=Chopra+Gujjar |title=Himachal: Nature's Peaceful Paradise |date=1971 |publisher=Indian School Supply Depot |pages=102 |language=en |quote=Gujjar: They were mostly Hindus but during the reign of Aurangazeb they embraced Islam, hence are mostly Sunnis though their sub-castes viz, Chandel, Bhatti, Banja, Lodhe, Kasane, Bhensi, '''Chopra''', Chauhan, Chechi, Khatapa.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9s8cAQAAMAAJ&q=Gujjar+subcaste+Chopra |title=Contemporary Social Sciences |date=1975 |publisher=Research Foundation |language=en |quote=Gujjars: They were mostly Hindus but during the reign of Aurangazeb, most of them embraced Islam. Hence, they are mostly Sunnis though their sub - castes viz . Chandel, Bhatti, Banja, Lodhe, Kasane, Bhensi, Chopra, Chauhan...}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book |last=Rahi |first=Javaid |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W9pwEAAAQBAJ&dq=Chopra+gujjars&pg=PA76 |title=The Gujjars -Vol 04 (Gujjars History & Culture) by Dr. Javaid Rahi |publisher=Jammu and Kashmir Acacademy of Art, Culture, Languages, Jammu |pages=76 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Warikoo |first1=Kulbhushan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zxtuAAAAMAAJ&q=Chopra+gujjars |title=Gujjars of Jammu and Kashmir |last2=Som |first2=Sujit |date=2000 |publisher=Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya |pages=84 |language=en}}</ref> is a clan found in the [[Gurjar]] Punjabi ethnic community of Pakistan and India.<ref name=":2">{{Cite book |last=Negi |first=Thakur Sen |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mGYeAAAAMAAJ&q=Chopra+Gujjar |title=Scheduled Tribes of Himachal Pradesh: A Profile |date=1976 |publisher=Negi |pages=116 |language=en}}</ref>

They are mainly adherents of Hinduism, Sikhism and Islam.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Misra |first1=Promode Kumar |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=a54tAAAAMAAJ&q=Chopra+Gujjar |title=Nomads in India: Proceedings of the National Seminar |last2=Malhotra |first2=K. C. |date=1982 |publisher=Anthropological Survey of India |pages=65 |language=en |quote=Gujjars: But a section of them who were not converted or who after conversion abandoned Islam still continues to be Hindus, though they are in the minority. Their sub-castes or gotras like Bhatti, Chandal, Chauhan, Baniya, Lodha, Kasara, Bhensi, Chopra, Chechi, Khatara, etc.}}</ref> The variations of the name include Chopra,<ref>{{Cite book |last=Shashi |first=Shyam Singh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Otppyf6MbxgC&dq=Chopra+Gujjar&pg=PA80 |title=The World of Nomads |date=2006 |publisher=Lotus Press |isbn=978-81-8382-051-6 |pages=80 |language=en}}</ref> '''''Chonpra''''', or '''''Chupra.'''''<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Kumar |first=Raj |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=e8o5HyC0-FUC&q=Chupra+chopra&pg=PA446 |title=Encyclopaedia of Untouchables Ancient, Medieval and Modern |date=2008 |publisher=Kalpaz Publisher |isbn=978-81-7835-664-8 |language=en |quote=Gujar sections: Chupra, Gurdaspur, Chopra, Ludhiana}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Warikoo |first1=Kulbhushan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zxtuAAAAMAAJ&q=Chopada+Gujar |title=Gujjars of Jammu and Kashmir |last2=Som |first2=Sujit |date=2000 |publisher=Indira Gandhi Rashtriya Manav Sangrahalaya |pages=8 |language=en |quote=The Desh Mukhas of '''Chopada''' are one of the chief Dor Gujar families in Khan-desh. They claim to belong to Pavar (Parmar) family of Kashyap rishi clan.}}</ref>

==Ethnography==

Some Chopra Gujjar families have settled in [[Punjab, Pakistan|Punjab]], and Azad Kashmir, Pakistan, but the vast majority of them live in the northern [[India]]n states of [[Himachal Pradesh]],<ref name=":2" /> [[Uttarakhand]], [[Punjab, India|Punjab]]<ref name=":0" /> (mainly in the districts of [[Gurdaspur]], [[Ludhiana]] and [[Hoshiarpur]]), Haryana and [[Jammu and Kashmir (union territory)|Jammu and Kashmir]].<ref name=":1" />

==References==

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==Sources==
#James M. Campbell (1880) [https://books.google.com/books?id=cxkP2xgNfh0C&dq=Chopada+Gujar&pg=PA67 Gazetteer of the Bombay Presidency: Under Government Orders. Khàndesh. Volume XII] [Dr.]: Government Central Press. p. 67
#[[Horace Arthur Rose]] (1911) [https://books.google.com/books?id=axkwAQAAIAAJ A Glossary of the Tribes and Castes of the Punjab and North-West Frontier Province] Low Price Publications. p. 182 "CHONPRA, a Gujar clan (agricultural) found in Amritsar."
#V.Verma (2000) [https://books.google.com/books?id=jA1uAAAAMAAJ Ban-Gujars: A Nomadic Tribe in Himachal Pradesh] B.R. Publishing Corporation. p. 104 {{ISBN|9788176461122}}
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[[Category:Social groups of Punjab, Pakistan]]
[[Category:Social groups of Haryana]]
[[Category:Social groups of Jammu and Kashmir]]
[[Category:Surnames of Indian origin]]

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LouJ11418910501 at 12:58, 22 February 2026